Col. John Fortunato with the JPSO said that Domonique Battle, 27, was brought to the Jefferson Parish Correction Center on Thursday and booked on a bond surrender charge for a theft and two traffic attachments.

“When Battle entered our intake area, our officers noticed he was acting suspicious; as if he was attempting to conceal something on his person,” Fortunato said. “Upon conducting a search of Battle, it was discovered he was concealing between his buttocks, crack cocaine and heroin.”

At the time, Battle was additionally charge with introduction of contraband into a correctional facility, illegal possession of crack cocaine and heroin. Later in the evening, Battle told authorities that he ingested heroin and needed to go to the hospital. Authorities took him to University Medical Center, where he was under guard by deputies with the JPSO.

Then on Sunday morning, he escaped from the custody after he overpowered a Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office deputy, New Orleans police said. The JPSO identified the deputy as Staci Penwright.

Battle reportedly took a stun gun from the deputy and ran out the door. Penwright fired one shot at Battle as she chased him down the staircase. The pursuit continued outside the hospital toward Canal Street. Battle approached a driver and tried to get inside of the car to flee, and that's when the deputy shot at him a second time.

Battle was taken back to the hospital and put in JPSO custody.

No one inside the hospital or outside during the pursuit was injured.

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